Fontographer Changelog

What's new in Fontographer 5.2.3 Build 4868

Dec 27, 2013
  • NEW:
  • RLM and Keyserver support for serving multiple licenses from a server. Great for computer labs!
  • Align width to grid
  • IMPROVED:
  • More flexible automatic linespacing calculation
  • Handling of OpenType kerning
  • Non-Western Type 1 and TrueType Symbol font support
  • Kerning Assistance and Metrics Assistance
  • Clipboard support and autotracing of template bitmaps
  • Hundreds of bug fixes
  • Mac OS X 10.7 compatible

New in Fontographer 5.2.1 Build 4541 (Dec 19, 2012)

  • Improved support for Asian CJK (Chinese, Japanese, Korean) fonts: edit vertical glyph metrics and vertical kerning; set the linespacing using the Ideographic em
  • New Edit Kerning dialog for easier modification of existing kerning pairs
  • Import and Export EPAR (Electronic Permissions and Recommendations) data
  • Dozens of bug fixes and minor improvements

New in Fontographer 5.1.1 (Sep 26, 2011)

  • Crash with opening of *.ttf fonts was fixed.

New in Fontographer 5.1 (Jul 19, 2011)

  • NEW! OpenType Embedding Permissions and Recommendations (EPAR) table to help license and use fonts appropriately
  • IMPROVED! More flexible automatic linespacing calculation
  • IMPROVED! Handling of OpenType kerning
  • IMPROVED! Non-Western Type 1 and TrueType Symbol font support
  • NEW! Align width to grid
  • IMPROVED! Kerning Assistance and Metrics Assistance
  • IMPROVED! Clipboard support and autotracing of template bitmaps
  • IMPROVED! Hundreds of bug fixes
  • Mac OS X 10.7 compatible

New in Fontographer 4.7.3 (May 27, 2010)

  • open recent files is added to File menu
  • fixed crash of "set metrics" dialog
  • more accurate import of afm and keq (kerning assistance files)
  • now allows to open .dfont fonts
  • in save dialogs file extension will now better match selected format
  • Keyserver support is improved
  • will now remember destination folder for font generation
  • a lot of minor fixes